Bizarre, confusing and contradictory: The strange tale of 10,000 missing LEDs08/03/2023 National Highways underestimated the number of LEDs already on its network by 10,000, creating confusion across its carbon reduction plans. |
McCann to carry out £6.5m Hillingdon street light upgrade19/01/2017 McCann will replace and maintain street lighting in London’s second largest borough, Hillingdon, after being awarded a £6.5 million contract. |
LED upgrade for Cheshire West and Chester17/01/2017 More than 24,000 street lights will be upgraded in Cheshire West and Chester at a cost of £5 million. |
Lighting upgrade forms part of A465 works09/12/2016 A major road upgrade is underway on the A465 Heads of the Valleys road in South Wales with SSE Enterprise awarded the contract to install 500 new street lights along the route. |
VolkerHighways wins £4.7m lighting contract31/10/2016 VolkerHighways has been awarded a £4.7 million contract with London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to replace nearly 16 thousand street lights with new LED lanterns. |
LED street light roll out continues in Gloucestershire31/08/2016 Gloucestershire County Council is continuing its roll out of LED street lighting with the upgrade set to save the local authority £17 million over the next 12 years. |
Volker begins street light upgrade in three counties29/06/2016 VolkerHighways has started work on a contract worth £24 million that will see it upgrade 38,000 street lights with energy efficient LED lamps in Slough, Wokingham and Reading. |
LED upgrade for Bath’s street lights25/05/2016 More than 8,000 street lights in Bath will be replaced with new light emitting diode (LED) units. |
More LED street lights to be installed in Hertfordshire16/05/2016 Hertfordshire County Council is continuing its rollout of LED lights following the successful upgrade of more than 12,000 street lights on all A-roads across the county. |
Skanska upgrading street lights in Gloucestershire06/04/2016 Skanska has officially taken over the general maintenance of Gloucestershire County Council’s entire street lighting portfolio. |
Bolton making switch to LED lighting01/04/2016 Almost 10,000 street lights in Bolton have been switched over to new LED lighting. |
Engineers on target to complete street light repairs in Wirral14/03/2016 Engineers are working through a backlog of street light repairs in Wirral. |
LED switchover for lights on M8 in Scotland08/03/2016 More than 100 lamps on the M8 in Scotland will be switched to LED lighting. |
Lincolnshire Council to make street light savings07/03/2016 Lincolnshire County Council is aiming to save £1.7 million by changing the way it manages street lighting. |
Kent to return to all-night lighting with £40m LED upgrade22/02/2016 Kent County Council (KCC) will spend £40 million on LED lights after agreeing on a policy to return to all-night lighting. |
Scotland switching over to LED street lights16/02/2016 Almost one-third of Scotland’s street lamps will be LEDs by 2017, according to figures released by the Scottish Futures Trust. |
Further LED lighting upgrade in Hertfordshire15/02/2016 Street lights on B, C and unclassified (residential) roads in Hertfordshire will be upgraded to LED technology. |
£40m contract to convert Kent’s street lights to LEDs awarded01/02/2016 Infrastructure firm Bouygues Energies & Services has been awarded a £40 million contract to convert Kent’s 118,000 street lights to LEDs. |
Volker wins £27m contract to upgrade lights in three boroughs10/12/2015 VolkerHighways will replace more than 38,000 street lights in Reading, Slough and Wokingham in April 2016 as part of a £27 million LED upgrade and maintenance project. |
Hertfordshire to test LED street lights03/12/2015 Hertfordshire County Council will be dimming and trimming some LED street lights overnight to test residents’ reactions to the energy-saving initiative. |
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